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MOLDING FOR PICTURE FRAMES. No. 284,316.. Pa t ented Sept. 4. 1883.

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.foHN MOORE, or SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

MOLDING FORPI'CTURE-FRAMES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 284,316, datedSeptember 4, 1883.'

i Application filed June 2,1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN MOORE, of Syra cuse, in the county of Onondagaand State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements inMoldings, PjCtUI'QrFI'QrIHiS, &c., of which the following, taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exactdescription. I

This invention consists, essentially, of a picture or mirror framecomposed of concreture, and formed with a recess around the outer edgeof the rabbet of the central opening of the frame, and a wooden framecemented in said recess to form one of the shoulders of the rabbet andto receive the fastenings for the picture' or mirror, all as hereinaftermore fully explained, and set forth in the claim.

The invention is fully illustrated in the annexed drawings, whereinFigure I is a vertical transverse section of a mold in which apictureframe can be formed in accordance with my invention; and Fig. II

is a rear view of Q a picture-frame embodying my invention. r

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents a frame, eitherfor a'picture, mirror, or analogous purpose.Said frame I form chiefly, or nearly wholly, of a substance known in theart'under the term cartonpier, or of other suitable concretureor-solidifying substance, which while in aplastic state I cast orintroduce into a mold, B, usually composed of gelatine, and of the samedimensions and form as that of the frame A to be constructed.

Orepresents a supplemental frame, composed of cleats orbars of wood orother stiff material. This frame is of the requisite a1 mensions to haveits inner edge correspond to the outer shoulder of the usual'rabbet, T,which is extended around the central opening of the frame for thereception of the picture or mirror. central body of the gelatine moldbefore introducing the concreture, thereby forming in Said frame I slipover the edge of thethe back of the frame A a recess extending aroundthe aforesaid rabbet, and insaid 1ecess the supplemental frame 0 becomesfirmly cemented. The wooden frame 0, secured to the main frameA, asaforesaid, forms, with its inner edge, the outer shoulder of the rabbetin which the picture or mirror is set, and thus furnishes a suitablewall into which to drive the pins usually employed for fastening thepicture and glass in the frame.

Having described my invention ,whatI claim asnew, and desire to secureby Letters Patent isformed with a'recess around the outer edge of therabbet r, and the wooden frame C, cemented in said recess and formingthe outer shoulder-of the rabbet, substantially in the manner 'and forthe purpose specified and shown.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and affixed my seal,in the presence I of two attesting Witnesses, at Syracuse, in the countyof Onondaga, in the State of NewYork this 29th day of May, 1883.

. JOHNMOORE. [is Witnesses:

WM. 0. RAYMOND, JOHN MCCARTHY.

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